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...quoted several senators, including former senator Bob Dole (R-Kan.), who lauded Mitchell as a man whom "not one man woman or child does not trust...
Horse Heaven is basically a book of vignettes that only occasionally interlock, and the real challenge for the reader is keeping all those characters, human and equine, straight. There is Justa Bob, a good-natured gelding who knows how to race, and Epic Steam, a stallion badly in need of a gelding. There is Buddy Crawford, a sleazy trainer who cares more about winning than about the horses (even after he finds Jesus), and Farley Jones, who adheres to The Tibetan Book of Thoroughbred Training ("Do not see any fault anywhere...Do not hanker after signs of progress"). There...
...Crimson men, under the tutelage of Coach Bob Leonard, bounced back from a shaky start in the fall, improving their team and individual play throughout the season. The team, led by junior co-captains Matt Dost and Kaj Vazales, had a rough outing at the opening Yale Invitational, finishing 26th in the 36-team pool. Just two weeks later, the men rebounded with a strong showing at the Toski Invitational, taking sixth place and gaining some much-needed confidence going into the annual ECAC Championships...
...involvement with the Harvard Living Wage Campaign began that afternoon. The sight of Bob's anonymous arm and the cafeteria's multi-million dollar Joan Miro installation that framed it became for me an icon of the skewed institutional values that subject Harvard's working-poor to unnecessary and, in a very real sense, invisible hardship...
...organize; the increased use of part-time clerical staff who have no access to benefits; the fact that grounds crew workers and engineers have not had a contract or a raise in two years; and the steady decline in janitors' wages over the last ten years--I realized that Bob's frustration and his preoccupation with "respect" were common at Harvard...